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Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2020

Free-of-charge all-videoconferencing edition on Wed Sept 30

OKLAHOMA SUPERCOMPUTING SYMPOSIUM 2020
    Wed Sep 30 2020, 9:00am-5:00pm Central Time
    Our first all-videoconferencing edition!
    Contact: Henry Neeman (hneeman@ou.edu)
    
    http://symposium2020.oscer.ou.edu/
    
    Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might be
    interested -- undergraduates, graduate students, faculty,
    staff, professionals, colleagues etc.
    
    If you've received this note in error, or you've
    already registered, please ignore it, or forward it to others.
    
    DETAILS:
    
    Are you interested in the FREE Oklahoma Supercomputing
    Symposium 2020 on Wed Sep 30, live via videoconferencing
    all day?
    
    SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE:
    
    * Amy Friedlander, National Science Foundation
    Office Director (Acting), Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
    
    * John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Department Head for Computer Science
    
    * Dan Stanzione, Texas Advanced Computing Center, U Texas Austin
    Executive Director
    
    * Tom Lange, Technology Optimization & Management LLC
    
    For the 2020 Symposium, we've already had:
    
    * 50 registrations in under 15 hours;
    
    * 100 registrations in under 19 hours;
    
    * 150 registrations in less than a week;
    
    * 200 registrations in less than a month!
    
    Over the past 18 Symposia, we've had over 4500 attendees from
    127 academic institutions from 28 US states and territories,
    178 private companies, 36 government agencies (federal, state,
    municipal, foreign) and 21 non-governmental organizations.
    
    The 2019 Symposium had 175 attendees, from l7 academic
    institutions in 5 states, 11 private companies,
    8 government agencies and 3 non-governmental organizations.
    
    We'd be delighted to have you participate. It's a great way to
    learn what's happening on the advanced computing side of your
    research, teaching and professional areas.
    
    And, if you know of students -- graduate, undergraduate, community
    college, career tech, high school -- who are interested in these
    areas, this is a great opportunity to introduce them to
    conferences, especially because it's FREE.
    
    Contact:
    
    Henry Neeman (hneeman@ou.edu)
    Director, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER)
    Associate Professor, Gallogly College of Engineering
    Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Science
    OU Information Technology
    The University of Oklahoma
    

Posted: September 10, 2020, 8:54 AM